Word: blandings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chinese Victory. In this easy bargaining climate. Chou seemed to have got all he wanted for the price of a bland Communist smile. He pitched a glib appeal for the leadership of Asia on the familiar "Asia for the Asians" theme, and the Indians cheered him. Chou made no concessions to Nehru. He reassured those who worry about Communist infiltration by declaring that "revolutions cannot be exported." Perhaps Chou's greatest triumph was the size of India's welcome itself-the biggest accorded a foreigner since independence...
...week long, France's allies could only watch Georges Bidault's sufferings. They could not help. His desperate pleas for a battlefield truce to save Dienbienphu's wounded met with bland delay from the Communists. Behind him, France's divided government nagged at him. Burly Marc Jacquet, Minister for the Associated States, sent to Geneva to act as a kind of watchdog for the quick-truce faction, told everybody who would listen: "We must get peace!" For two days Bidault had to mark time while the Assembly debated a vote of confidence. "A Foreign Minister does...
...voice was shrill and hostile-far from the bland, candid tones which had once beguiled Chinese and unwary Westerners alike into misreading the nature and underestimating the strength of the Communists. The message he uttered came straight from the Kremlin's Mimeograph room (see above). But for the first time, as Chou took pains to point out, Red China was sitting with the big powers...
According to luncheon protocol no candidate could mention another, but Millie Younger, whose brains and looks delighted the 1952 Republican Convention (TIME, July 21, 1952), felt she had to challenge Tenney's bland assertion that "I have never been connected in any way with Gerald L. K. Smith." As the lunch ended, she went up to Tenney, snapped: "I'm disgusted with you." Replied Tenney: "Likewise...
Painter Zerbe set out to find a new medium. The answer was polymer tempera, a plastic mixture developed by one of Zerbe's former students at the Boston Museum's art school. Polymer tempera is made by mixing polyvinyl acetate, a bland white plastic (which is also used as a binder for paper diapers), with softener and ammonia. The result is a fast-drying medium as easy to handle as gouache but with as much body as oil. Last week 16 of Zerbe's new plastic paintings were on view at Manhattan's Alan Gallery. Painter...